The opposing radio view from today's (3/12) game

by sectionop92 on Mar 12, 2008 4:53 PM PDT

If anything, Padres' annoucners Ted Leitner and Andy Mazur are already in mid-season form...as in, the Padres are "GODS!!!" and they can't see the parallels between them and the Giants.

Example #1. They talked about draft history and said the Giants have gotten nothing besides Cain and Lincecum. Then they go on to taught Khalil Greene, Chase Headley(yeah...hasn't made the team yet, but understandable) and leave out the fact that they've blown just as many picks, if not bigger ones, because they chased hitters for nearly a decade. So the pot can't call the kettle black because John Moores doesn't pay for that.

Example #2. Leitner and Mazur gloss poetic about money the Giants wasted on Aaron Rowand, but low-and-behold, you always hear how great a leader Tony Clark will be because he played his high school basketball and broke Bill Walton's local records, how Brian Giles is a "GAMER!" and how Jim Edmonds is finally going to be on the Padres' side when he gets those "big hits" he always got against them. Ah...where can I pull to the side of the road and toss my car radio then the contents of whatever is in my stomach?

Example #3. Jerry Coleman...for as great as he was...needs to be put out of the broadcast booth. He said at the end of the inning today: "San Diego Padres 5, San Diego Padres 3...I'm mean San Francisco Giants 3." It's obvious the guy can still talk, but he doesn't prepare in any way. This is the same HOF announcer who asked if Steve Kline was 98 years old last season, in reference to how long he's been in the pro's. Just put a mic in-front of him, but don't connect the cord if he won't go willingly.

So that's the way it is...down here, where the Pads will be proud to be wearing the sand camouflage jerseys once again because they just don't get it.

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Re: The opposing radio view from today's (3/12) ga

I had to shut it off after a couple of innings. Leitner makes me insane. It's funny, I never really had any reason to seriously dislike the Pads before - they've usually been so boring - but now I do. I may be dreaming with the state of los Gigantes, but I'm saying that we at least have to bury the Friars this year.

by BigO on Mar 12, 2008 5:36 PM PDT reply actions

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I listened to their game last week and ended up turning it off it was bad...I'll listen to the dry as wall paint Greenwald first, thanks.

by shawngf on Mar 12, 2008 5:37 PM PDT reply actions

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The TV announcers (Matt Vasgersian, Mark Grant) for the Pads are 10 times worse since the channel they are on was built for the Pads' benefit. The media down here is so pro-San Diego, that the sentiment to be against the Padres or Chargers is not acceptable unless there is a player or players to be upset about. Fans who have brought up Moores' outright dishonesty about spending money on free agents once he got Petco years after the fact, are shot down quickly on the sports radio station that is home to the Padres. All the cheerleading by the radio hosts after Peavy took the hometown discount and did the finger-pointing, with comparison to the Zambrano deal, was funny. After four years, a big money deal finally was signed and they treated it like it was two or three rolled into one.

It's simple why the Padres announcers and fans don't like the Giants: Barry Bonds and the Giants' history. Ted Leitner hates Barry beyond words to the point where he'd throw him out of a plane if he could. The fans forget Ken Caminiti but Barry Bonds is the era's pinata and ignorance is the zest of life for them. The fact that the Padres' history is that of a constant loser with just now, a recent string of winning, is what they are. The Giants are down after beating the Pads for decades. The San Diego faithful want to do everything they can to gain some sort of superiority. They remember how 1996 was, then how the West was entirely caught off-guard in 97. In the Padres' eyes...if they were to finish in last...that's something that is inconceivable because the Giants suck so bad and they're so good. That's because they are feeding a misleading guise of being a real contender and grandstanding for players we were mocking just weeks ago.

it's always noonan somewhere

by sectionop92 on Mar 12, 2008 6:12 PM PDT reply actions

Leitner = Insufferably Unctuous Tool

In today's broadcast Leitner pointedly referred to Barry Bonds but would not speak his name. Like the name "Barry Bonds" was a pile of dog doo Ted didn't want to step in. I noticed he had no trouble at all talking about Ken Caminiti, later on in the broadcast.

That's all I can stands, I can't stands no more!

by tobias on Mar 12, 2008 10:29 PM PDT up reply actions

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He who should not be named.

Father of Adopted son Clay Timpner

by Andy In Fresno on Mar 12, 2008 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions

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I remember Leitner said that he would say a prayer hoping he wouldn't have to make the home run call for 756, and Jon Miller subtly ripped him for it, and rightly so. Miller sarcastically said how he prayed that he'd never have to call the other team scoring a run.

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by Natto on Mar 12, 2008 11:13 PM PDT up reply actions

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Leitner is an all around pompous ass. He does Hummer ads on the radio and literally creams his pants when he gets to the mileage part (20 miles per gallon highway). Then will rip on anyone who says anything bad about the Padres (or "his" Padres anytime they win a game or "your" Padres when they lose) when they have facts to back it up and Ted just has his opinion. Plus I loved the chance interview...with no background/reference check...that the drive-time chuckleheads had with Lloyd Lake, the person who is in the middle of the Reggie Bush fiasco. After Lake...if it was him...called in, Ted was on right after and said something along the lines of, "you guys are at the forefront...getting the news and having the news come to you...I remember those types of things going on when I was doing play-by-play at Oklahoma..." blah, blah, blah... Ted's the show and we have to put up with it. Oh...and umpiring is the easiest job in the world, ask Ted all about it. It's cake! I guess it would be if I had the luxury of multiple replays, a big mouth and a fat ass to rest the bulbous mass that is utter crap on.

it's always noonan somewhere

by sectionop92 on Mar 13, 2008 1:11 AM PDT up reply actions

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They can't compare to the horror that is Sutton and Grace for the D-Backs. Watching their broadcasts as a Giants fan is like getting waterboarded.

by xanthan on Mar 12, 2008 8:17 PM PDT reply actions

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"PORPO!"

Aaron "Swag" Rowand

by victor frankenstein on Mar 12, 2008 11:03 PM PDT up reply actions

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I liked Grace until I heard too much of him on Jim Rome's radio show and then as he got more exposure with the D-Backs. The guy could play, but he's Curt Schilling -70% of the talent and +15% of the ego.

it's always noonan somewhere

by sectionop92 on Mar 12, 2008 8:29 PM PDT reply actions

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That can't be humanly possible.

by shawngf on Mar 13, 2008 7:09 AM PDT up reply actions

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If Hawk Harrelson and Tim McCarver ever do a game together, I'd cut off my own finger to get out of listening to that.

Feliz gone, team still bad

by oldjacket on Mar 12, 2008 9:03 PM PDT reply actions

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Just make sure it's not your load scrapping finger, for the obvious reasons.

He is Vengeance. He is the Knight. He is Dave Righetti. PRAY TO HIM!

by howtheyscored on Mar 12, 2008 9:59 PM PDT up reply actions

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"you always hear how great a leader Tony Clark will be because he played his high school basketball and broke Bill Walton's local records,"

And yet lost to Colusa in the 1990 state championship. Haw haw haw!! Pffftt!!

by satyricrash on Mar 12, 2008 10:32 PM PDT reply actions

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I agree that Leitner's the most obnoxious of the all the homers around the league (WHEN will XM get road team feeds?). Last week I was listening to the game tha Jonathan Sanchez pitched in and Leitner went on and on about how Sanchez was a first round draft pick, "the guy they drafted to be a star in their rotation between Cain and Lincecum." And it just goes to show that even if you have the arm to be picked in the first round it's all wasted if you don't know how to pitch.

It struck me that it must have been easy enough if the guy had any professional diligence at all to ascertain that Sanchez was in fact drafted in about the 27th round. But even if you were too lazy to find something like that out, why would you simply make up that he was a first rounder? It's not like most major leaguers are first rounders. That kind of simple failure to put any work at all into the job, on top of his smirking snickering hatred of all things Bonds and Giants, really makes him contemptible to me.

One thing that strikes me over and over in life: how few people there are who are actually good at their jobs.

My boy ain't fat, he's just big boned. Big bat, too.

by Roger on Mar 13, 2008 8:28 AM PDT reply actions

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That's nothing when compared to Leitner and Mazur fuddling between calling Edgar Gonzalez the better high school player and higher drafted Gonzalez brother, when compared with Adrian.

it's always noonan somewhere

by sectionop92 on Mar 13, 2008 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions